Example sentences of "and i think [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think when we talk in terms in getting around to spending the money we have got then we need to look quite clearly about how you make a place more inviting and it 's also about when people come into the building how they 're met what the receptionists like , when they ring up can they get through and I mean I 'm I 'm surprised that 's said about the tickets that I think that our reception ticket areas an excellent area the people working there are first class are very friendly very helpful so it 's trying to get that sort of concept through the building I thin k we work on that I think the building 's kept very clean people who clean the building are very good but I hear what you 're saying and I thinks it 's been said earlier by the lady here by the foyer downstairs she feels threatened when she goes into that bar because I think the whole decor and the way it is is a threatening place I think we need to look at those so that was an old and . |
| 2 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 3 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 4 | Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had . |
| 5 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 6 | you know the priority was either P H I , savings or whatever and I thought we 've gone through the whole form |
| 7 | And I thought we 've had to Eileen back something before because they 've fought . |
| 8 | We actually got the rigging up and sailed around for a while in twos — I was with my brother and I thought we managed quite well . |
| 9 | Hastings said : ‘ I am very proud of my boys and I thought we played very well , especially the forwards . |
| 10 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 11 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game ; made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les , got the passing going , and I thought we did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 12 | I was , I was in the loo and erm they were , they went into the office and I could hear this rummaging of paper and I thought they 've got a club book , I did n't think any more of it , and when I came out they got , both of them out of the boxes . |
| 13 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 14 | And I thought they called her er he 's from Scotland June , cos |
| 15 | ‘ We play in the same position and I thought I 'd proved myself last season . |
| 16 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 17 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 18 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 19 | ‘ I stopped to make a phone call , and I thought I 'd better drop off some clothes at the dry-cleaner 's . ’ |
| 20 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 21 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 22 | And I thought I 'd got |
| 23 | And I thought I 'd caught it . |
| 24 | I nearly brought you down and treat , and I thought I 'd better not until I 've asked your mum . |
| 25 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 26 | It grew cold , and I thought I had a fever . |
| 27 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 28 | Teotihuacan was some twenty kilometres north-east of the centre of Mexico City and I thought I had probably glimpsed those pyramids through the dust haze as we flew in . |
| 29 | I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry . |
| 30 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |